Open AccessA PARADIGM SHIFT FROM PRACTICE TO RESEARCH… EMERGENCE OF EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE
Author(s) -
Amna Khan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
pakistan journal of rehabilitation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2311-3863
pISSN - 2309-7833
DOI - 10.36283/pjr.zu.1.2/001
Subject(s) - paradigm shift , clinical practice , engineering ethics , evidence based practice , public relations , political science , psychology , medicine , sociology , environmental ethics , alternative medicine , epistemology , nursing , engineering , philosophy , pathology
What is change? Why is it difficult to either become a part of the change or to introduce the change? The abhorrent situations were faced with the introduction of Evidence Based Practice (EBP) in the emerging field of Rehabilitation. Globally, EB physical therapy practice (EBPTP) has brought innovation and revolution in the current practices of Physical Therapist (PT) and has become a challenge for them. Worldwide these challenges have already been popularized for more than twenty years but we might need another decade to practice it in Pakistan.